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Friday, May 3

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Senior Living Facility To Pay Former Employee $78K To Settle Age And Disability Lawsuit

Covenant Woods Senior Living in Columbus, Georgia, must pay 78-year-old Shirley Noble.

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Minneapolis students want better playground accessibility for classmates with disabilities

www.startribune.com

A group of elementary school students is lobbying the Minneapolis school board to help them play with their friends on the playground without any barriers.

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More than half of older adults with intellectual disability take psychotropic medicines, shows study

medicalxpress.com

The Examining Quality, Use and Impact of Psychotropic (Use) in older adults with intellectual disabilities (EQUIP) study, has revealed that more than half of older adults with intellectual disability take psychotropic medicines, including…

I Was Not Born With A Disability – Para Athlete Edmund Govina

newsghana.com.gh

News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Sammy Heywood Okine, https://newsghana.com.gh/i-was-not-born-with-a-disability-para-athlete-edmund-govina/Bronze medalist Edmund Govina, a first timer Track & Field Para Athlete from…

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Swapping payments for vouchers won’t fix disability benefits – here’s what’s needed instead

theconversation.com

Disabled people need £975 more per month to maintain the same standard of living as a non-disabled person.

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Inside TC’s Techstars investigation and how AI is accelerating disability tech

techcrunch.com

The downturn in venture capital funding that the world has seen since the bust of the 2021-era bubble has impacted startups, VC firms, and accelerators alike. One company in the final category, Techstars, has been shaking up its operations…

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Sightsavers to support 2,800 young women with disabilities in financial inclusion

businessday.ng

Sightsavers, a NGO has expressed its readiness to support 2,800 persons with disabilities in financial inclusion and business education.

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Tertiary education will be free for persons with disability if I win – Bawumia

www.pulse.com.gh

Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has promised that he will make tertiary education free for all persons with disability if he wins the 2024 general elections.

People with disabilities face some of the most brutal conditions during war. We need urgent change

Analysis: Strides have been made in recent decades among the UN and humanitarian organisations to try and put protections in place, writes William Pons. But they need to be enforced and expanded so that the suffering of people with…

Used as human shields, starved and under fire: The horrors people with disabilities face in Putin’s war

In the final part of our series on the plight of people with disabilities caught up in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Bel Trew speaks to a man who had only the use of one limb, his arm, about the terrible treatment Ukrainians are subjected…

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Strengthen disability-inclusive workplaces

www.sanews.gov.za

Strengthen disability-inclusive workplaces

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NGO Partners Access Bank, UNICEF, Unilever To Empower Girls, Women With Disabilities

independent.ng

LAGOS – Governmental Organisation, Sightsavers, on Thursday inaugurated a project, ‘’Strengthening Access to Business Education and Inclusion (SABI) – Woman’’, targeted at young girls and women with disabilities. The project is aimed at…

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N.S. parent uneasy as institutions for people with developmental disabilities set to close

globalnews.ca

A Nova Scotia woman says she's worried about her adult son's future, as the province's institutions for people with developmental disabilities are set to close.

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Free GM cycling scheme launches for people with disabilities

A new free bike loan scheme has been launched in Greater Manchester for people with long-term health conditions and disabilities to get into cycling.

Free GM cycling scheme launches for people with disabilities

A new free bike loan scheme has been launched in Greater Manchester for people with long-term health conditions and disabilities to get into cycling.

Free GM cycling scheme launches for people with disabilities

www.burytimes.co.uk

A new free bike loan scheme has been launched in Greater Manchester for people with long-term health conditions and disabilities to get into cycling.

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To the parents of school-aged children with disabilities: it's not your fault | Anonymous

www.theguardian.com

My son spent his high school years isolated in the library or watching YouTube videos. Am I angry? Absolutely. Do I blame his teachers? I don’t

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Access Living releases recommendations to help people with disabilities from gun violence

abc7chicago.com

After two and a half years of research, Access Living released insights and recommendations to help people living with disabilities due to gun violence.

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The culinary arts program getting results for people with cognitive disabilities

Home Of Bright Choices holds a monthly cooking club, promotes the members’ cottage food businesses, and now, partners with Valencia College to offer a certificate program for young adults with disabilities.

Thursday, May 2

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‘Breaking a promise’: California deficit could halt raises for disability workers

www.ocregister.com

Disability care workers provide daily, hands-on caregiving to help children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.